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Mar. 9, 2013

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Written by

Eric Weddle
eweddle@jconline.com

After a 30-year run, the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest may no longer call Purdue University home.

For the first time since its inception the contest of complicated machines dreamed up by American college teams will hold its national round away from the West Lafayette campus - at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio, on March 30.

The national contest may not return to Purdue unless differences about how the event is run can be settled between the university, student organizers and the corporation that oversees Goldberg's licensing and intellectual property, those involved ...